The oil filters much more readily through the one moistened with bile, than through the one moistened with water.

In a moment the friar abandoned the attempt and ran down the long corridor, into which the light filtered dimly through cobwebs.

Certainly the mud of the Altamaha must have some most peculiar virtues; and, by the by, I have never anywhere tasted such delicious tea as that which we make with this same turbid stream, the water of which duly filtered, of course, has some peculiar softness which affects the tea (and it is the same we always use) in a most curious and agreeable manner.

No doubt the medical staff take care that the distilled water is alike thoroughly aerated and efficiently filtered.

The idea was joyfully accepted, and gradually filtered through its authorised channels, suffering some office change or other at each stage till it finally reached one of our ancient seats of learning.

It was a day of high-driving clouds, thin and fleecy, so that they merely filtered the sunlight and turned it into a haze without decreasing the heat perceptibly, and that heat grew until it became difficult to look down at the blazing sand.

Then she began to question Katherine eagerly concerning the news which had filtered through into the solitudes from the great world outside.

The light filtered palely through the various rooms into the one in which the two men and the woman were hidden; by means of this the former could make the latter out in a dim, uncertain sort of way.

A blue light was filtering softly through the tops of the trees and the birds were already calling.

For the future then we must consciously work for the building upward from primary units, so completely reversing our present practice of creating the big thing and fighting hopelessly to preserve such small and few doles of liberty and personality as may be permitted to filter downward from above.